- Original: אוּץ - Transliteration: 'uwts - Phonetic: oots - Definition: 1. to press, be pressed, make haste, urge, be narrow a. (Qal) 1. to press, hasten 2. to be pressed, confined, narrow 3. to hasten, make haste 4. be narrow b. (Hiphil) 1. to urge, insist 2. to hasten - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 51 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to press; (by implication) to be close hurry withdraw: - (make) haste (-n -y) labor be narrow. Total KJV Occurrences: 10 • haste, 1 Proverbs 28:20 • hasted, 2 Exodus 5:13; Joshua 10:13 • hastened, 2 Genesis 19:15; Jeremiah 17:16 • hasteth, 1 Proverbs 19:2 • hasty, 2 Proverbs 21:5; Proverbs 29:20 • labor, 1 Isaiah 22:4 • narrow, 1 Joshua 17:15